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Onycha is a play on the word onyx which was a gem. The onyx most esteemed by the ancients was the black gem. [30] The Hebrew word for onyx was shoham and “Braun traces shoham to the Arabic sachma,'blackness:' 'Of such a color,' says he, 'are the Arabian [onyxes], which have a black ground-color.'
"Shifftee" is a song by American hip hop group Onyx. It was released on August 30, 1993 by JMJ Records, Rush Associated Labels and Chaos Recordings as the third single from Onyx's debut album, Bacdafucup. The song was about being grimy and having that echo into a myriad of life situations.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Onyx; Sardonyx; Bloodstone (Heliotrope) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Onyx: Typically black-and-white-banded or monochromatic agate: Semi-translucent to opaque Cryptocrystalline Jasper: Impure chalcedony or chert, typically red to brown but the name is often used for other colors: Opaque Cryptocrystalline or Microcrystalline Milky quartz: White, may display diasterism: Translucent to opaque Macrocrystalline Smoky ...
Other members of the cryptocrystalline silica family include agate, carnelian, and onyx. Unlike many non-transparent silica minerals, it is the color of chrysoprase, rather than any pattern of markings, that makes it desirable. The word chrysoprase comes from the Greek χρυσός chrysos meaning 'gold' and πράσινον prasinon, meaning ...
Colors often considered "shades of black" include onyx, black olive, charcoal, and jet. These colors may be considered for part of a neutral color scheme, usually in interior design as a part of a background for brighter colors. Black and dark gray colors are powerful accent colors that suggest weight, dignity, formality, and solemnity. [1]
Black Onyx Onyx. Onyx - Hebrew שֹׁהַם shoham, Greek ὀνύχινος onychinos, Latin lapis onychinus. The eleventh stone of the breastplate in the Hebrew and the Vulgate (Exodus 28:20, 39:13), representing the tribe of Joseph. In the Septuagint it is the twelfth stone and the fifth in Ezekiel 28:13 in the Hebrew, but the twelfth ...
Male. Upperside cyaneous-blue. Forewing with a patch of white outside the end of the cell, divided into 4 by veins 2, 3 and 4, the upper piece the smallest, the spot below vein 4 small; the costa with a black band, narrow at the base, increasing in width outwards, occupying the whole apical space beyond the white patch, and broadly down the outer margin.